From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 20 06:40:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 731A016A50D for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:40:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lopisaur@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E462843D7E for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:40:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lopisaur@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x37so1866263nfc for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:40:06 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:subject:from:reply-to:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=RNLCdaThZ8allXCsXPKHkYEcXqKEU7dfIyqIFHksj8sJin1dvzAGOfejVjEeT4cF1vMNsbfmr+Ll0leyYd9n5BxqAxWeApyAdan1D9luVEHqSukutNdxIHxkXK0Eka+fb/B+NBa5TgBeGZsTyef1WlD7sgUik3zOPvqexwaI4MA= Received: by 10.49.42.5 with SMTP id u5mr6273016nfj.1164004806435; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:40:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.33? ( [84.63.96.152]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id l22sm20860105nfc.2006.11.19.22.40.05; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:40:06 -0800 (PST) From: Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner To: Max Laier In-Reply-To: <200611191956.06071.max@love2party.net> References: <1163885169.6558.39.camel@resurrection> <20061119192633.0af1ea15.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <200611191956.06071.max@love2party.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:40:07 +0100 Message-Id: <1164004807.10209.7.camel@resurrection> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of 3945ABG and others X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: lopisaur@gmail.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:40:56 -0000 On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 19:55 +0100, Max Laier wrote: > On Sunday 19 November 2006 19:26, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:26:08 +0100 > > > > Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote: > > > Sound is ALC861, > > > > Probably HDA, you should test the snd_hdac driver. Look on -multimedia > > mailinglist for clues. > > > > > wireless 3945ABG. > > > > As far as I know (and I'm interested, because I have a laptop with > > this device myself), nothing has happened on this front. It seems that > > Intel, for reasons of their own, isn't able to (or doesn't want to) > > release necessary docs to make a good driver. > > OpenBSD (4.0) have support for this via the wpi driver, but it doesn't > > support WPA yet, only WEP. > > There is an experimental FreeBSD version of this driver available via: > http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/wpi/ ... there are a couple of > people interested in getting this working, see Threads on freebsd-net@ > from October and November. > > > Your best bet would be to > > a) exchange the network card, if possible. Some laptop network cards > > are miniPCI and can be exchanged, but I do not know if this is the case > > for the 3945ABG. > > b) use an external usb network "dongle". Look at the ural driver, you > > can find some of the supported devices quite cheap. I dont know how > > good they are, I have just tested one, and have some issues with it > > (stability) but haven't been able to rule out if it is something with > > my setup yet. > Hmm, guess I'll have to get back used to running around with patch cables... at least for a while. On a side note, thanks to all you guys who responded! I actually tried getting some ideas for some other issues in a Linux-vendor's forum (machine would fsck and hang if booted without the radio on, weird) and all I got were flames, so I can proudly say that we have a great community! Keep up the good work! -- Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner lopisaur@gmail.com clopez@uni-koblenz.de (+49-173)1030695 PGP Keys: 98FC0D41 483EA9B6 (Old)